Cool new working paper on why and how cable news threw gasoline on the culture war fire. The culture war isn't optimal for electoral candidates, but it's optimal for cable news companies. ungated: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/27v4x...

Help candidates on the market by signing up for a mock interview. It doesn't cost you much time, but it can help candidates tremendously!

Rejection is one of the toughest parts about academia and this post provides some great guidance on how to deal with it (that I will start trying to follow myself). Here's a couple of thoughts that the post triggered, if those happen to be of interest:

🚨 New paper out! Very happy to see our (Tom Arend, @fabioellger.bsky.social and mine) paper out at the @bjpols.bsky.social. We explore how voters react to new, disruptive political actors. 1/3

Despite everything else going on, France last night honoured Robert Badinter, the former justice minister who ended the death penalty in 🇫🇷 in 1981. He entered the Panthéon in a moving moment of national tribute that the French do so well

🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨 We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track. We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.

New office, new role: I’ve started a new job this summer as an Assistant Prof at Warwick. Now I just need some good books to fill these shelves. Recommendations welcome!

I agree with Charlotte, but I'd add the Max Weber Fellowship to the list. I cannot emphasize how great the programme is (research, networking, quality of life, social life, etc). The deadline is a month before the IAST's fellowship: www.eui.eu/apply?id=max...

This week, I’ve started a new position as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. I’m excited to open this new chapter at @unileiden.bsky.social !

In a moment when the narrative has swung so far to the other end, this book by Volha Charnysh is more important than ever. It shows the displacement of people historically fostered state capacity, private entrepreneurship, and long-term economic performance. www.cambridge.org/core/books/u...

I'm looking for someone UK-based with web-scraping skills who can scrape a substantial amount of data for me from the French parliamentary website in exchange for a fixed (negotiable) one-off fee.  French language skills are not essential as full instructions will be provided. 1/2

Are you interested in how parties' parliamentary behavior (e.g., passing bills, calling for elections, forming coalitions, cooperating/conflicting) affects voters (e.g., electoral behavior, perceptions, affective polarization)? Please let me know. I am putting together an MPSA panel proposal.

Amazing work from @evakrejcova.bsky.social @filipkostelka.bsky.social and N.Sauger!

🚨 Job Alert U. de Montréal 🚨 Assistant/Associate Prof: Politics or IR of China If that sounds like you and you speak some French, please consider applying for this job. Our dept is ultra-friendly, support is good, and Montréal is amazing! Reach out with any Q?s tinyurl.com/y9trt5va

LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome! Please reach out if you would like any more details.

🚨📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp! 💻 Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis 🗳️ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies) 🌍 Location: Antwerp, 🇧🇪 📅 Deadline: 16 Oct 2025 www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

Je suis un peu à la ramasse sur l’actu politique française, j’essaie de me rattraper et je découvre seulement aujourd’hui cette perle : Bayrou qui balance sur le “confort des boomers”. On fait ça quand on n’a aucune élection en ligne de mire

Something political science would benefit bigly from: World Politics style multi-book review articles where none of the books are written by political scientists. For example: one on “zones” featuring @atossaaraxia.bsky.social, Slobodian, etc. Let’s bring new stuff into the field!

📢 Call for Papers – London Experimental Seminar Series (LESS) in Political Science @lsegovernment.bsky.social. We are launching a new forum for experimental political science research: First seminar: 19/11/2025. Deadline: 31/08/2025. Submit here: forms.gle/ZUJcBbZoDoaY...

"First, please please please let’s move on from the Harry Potter references." Kevin Munger is the best. Period. His response to the Economist article is great: kevinmunger.substack.com/p/i-guess-th...

My problem with this (weird) article from @economist.com on the EUI is that I just don't get the jokes. It's all Harry Potter metaphors, and I'm as familiar with Harry Potter as I am with Star Wars: not at all

📣 Call for Applications 📣 3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀 Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us! 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

📢 University of Warwick is hiring two Assistant Professors (apply by 17 July 2025): •International Relations (Conflict & Security): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR672/a... •International Organisations: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR770/a... #PoliSciJobs #PolScijobs

🚀 Launching the Humboldt Governance Lab @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social! We deliver evidence-based insights and policy advice on today’s key challenges to democracy. 🌐 hu-govlab.de Follow us for research, updates & collaborations. #GovLab #Democracy #PolicyResearch

Together with @jellekoedam.bsky.social, @tinepaulsen.bsky.social, and @nicolaiberk.bsky.social, we brought together an amazing group of researchers doing exciting work here in Zurich — and it turned into a super fun, engaging workshop. Huge thanks to everyone who joined and made it so special!

You can reach me on Bluesky or via email (EUI or Warwick). Thanks a lot!

New WP w/ @riazsascha.bsky.social: via >42 million placebo tests, we show type I error inflation in Unexpected Event during Survey Designs (UESD), propose an adjustment, implement via new R package uesdRobust, and demonstrate utility by replicating two top UESD studies. osf.io/preprints/os... 1/9

Yesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions. A 🧵 1. Who formed EPSS? EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members. 1/

Very happy that my doctoral thesis was awarded the EUI's Linz Rokkan Prize in Political Sociology. I am grateful to my supervisors, Hanspeter Kriesi and @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social, and @eui-sps.bsky.social's amazing research ecosystem. The thesis can be read here (cadmus.eui.eu/entities/pub...)

As some of you guessed, the two models are statistically indistinguishable. The answer is Model 1, but there was no way to tell from the data. I was very surprised when I first saw this. Here we show that this confounding of heterogeneity and reinforcement is general: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I look forward to meeting many of you soon in Madrid for EPSA 2025. In case that’s helpful to anyone, here are some of my personal Madrid favorites:

Almost time to leave Florence. Taking a few books to make the goodbye softer

Always a pleasure to come back to @eui-eu.bsky.social! Got great feedback at the CPSS seminar @eui-sps.bsky.social and was able to participate in a fantastic PhD defense on the rural-urban divide in Spain by Rebeca González Antuña. Bonus was being around during coppa once more! Forza Sanfelicians!

Paris vs. Milan — it's hard to say which side you want to root against more.

The Italian referendum ballot papers are so cute I kinda want to keep them

When getting access to samples for online surveys/experiments: With which companies besides Bilendi/yougov are you getting in touch? Asking mostly for Western democracies, maybe Poland. Thanks!

Another fantastic paper by Joris!

Had a great day out @eui-eu.bsky.social yesterday giving the macro seminar. What a place to do research!

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." Interested in making scholarly & societal impact? We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)

Mentally preparing myself for the nightmare of a PSG win. In Munich. Against Milan (the other one). Could it get any worse for a Marseille fan?

🚨 Very excited that our paper on *Rulers on the Road* has been cond. accepted at the AJPS @ajpseditor.bsky.social. We analyze emperors' strategies of itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire 919-1519. Fun working with @claranw.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & Jørgen Møller shorturl.at/Spm7z

Thanks Toby. This was a lot of fun. Hope your listeners agree.

📊🚨 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗦? @chanret.bsky.social & I have a panel at @psaepop.bsky.social on 𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙨 and have space for 2 papers. Topics might include fragmentation, disproportionality, measurement, etc. DM for more info and we especially welcome interest from ECRs!

In the latest issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social, my article with Jonne Kamphorst in which we propose that educationally homogeneous social networks contribute to the stabilization of political conflict on the cultural dimension. A short thread on the main findings: Link: doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Some thoughts on the strategic rationale behind the "Brandmauer” – the cordon sanitaire vis-à-vis the AfD – and the challenges associated with maintaining it. Seems pertinent, given that senior CDU/CSU figures regularly float the idea of ditching it and exploring avenues for closer cooperation.

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

My first paper is out! Loved working on this.

The project "How to Make the Case for Democracy" has been funded by @dfg.de! 🎉 This grant supports two positions for exploring innovative strategies to bolster citizen support for democracy in established democracies. (1/6)

📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData

Excited to share that my project "Party politics and the politicization of health care" has been funded by the @snsf-ch.bsky.social! 🚀 The project will examine how parties have politicized health care along economic & cultural lines. A postdoc & PhD position will be available – stay tuned!